Rebirth of Yijia

Chapter 108

The banquet was placed in the queen's palace.

In the middle of the day, Princess An and the Princess Cheng, who went to the Queen Mother to greet Ann, also came.Because it was the queen's birthday, many people gathered in the palace to celebrate her birthday.

Sitting at the top, the Empress Empress and Concubine Liang were gossiping: "Sister, your nephew is here too, and you will also carefully watch over the ladies of each family later, it is obvious that you are not young."

Concubine Liang disliked that her nephew and the empress were too close.

But on his face, he could only smile respectfully, and said: "The concubine doesn't understand these things, so I have to trouble the Empress to help me find out more. My nephew is a very independent person, so how can he listen to my words?" what."

That nephew of yours is very assertive and won't listen to you, does that mean he told me not to get close, lest I won't listen to me?

The empress covered her mouth and smiled.

"After all, it's my aunt, so he can't completely ignore your suggestion. Don't refuse, and look more for your nephew." The empress said.

"The concubine will take orders." Concubine Liang Gui replied with a smile.

It's just that the smile was only on the surface, for some reason, she always felt that the empress was weird today.No, it's not just today, it seems that since the Mid-Autumn Festival, when she brought the pregnant Lin Meiren into the palace, something was wrong with the empress.

Lin Meiren is only three months pregnant, even if she has any plans, it will not be now.Could it be that the Empress is thinking of the future?

The empress ignored her, because the young ladies of each family began to send birthday gifts one by one.

The empress's birthday banquet is different from the peach blossom banquet in Princess Anhe's mansion. Even if it is intended to choose a concubine for her son, the ladies from all families will not be allowed to perform any talents here.Fortunately, the ladies are going to give her a gift, so we can get a general idea of ​​the girls' character from the gift and the way they talk and respond.

The empress only gave birth to three sons and no daughters, but there were six princesses in the palace.The two princesses have been married as adults, and the two are still in their infancy.The other two are the daughters of Concubine Liang, the third princess and the fourth princess Hui Hechang.

The two princesses took the lead in presenting gifts, followed by the most beloved Le Chengmin, Qi Wenqing, and other royal daughters, and finally the daughters of the ministers.

What Qi Wenqing presented was a Buddhist scripture copied by himself.

The empress praised her once, and then she casually said to Princess Cheng who was sitting on the lower side: "Wenqing has turned fourteen years, isn't it?"

Princess Cheng said: "No, this child was born in January, and it will be his 14th birthday in a few years."

"Have you agreed to it?" the empress asked.

Princess Cheng smiled and looked at her daughter.

"I haven't asked anyone yet, but this girl has taken a fancy to a good one. I think it's okay, but I haven't told her father yet." Princess Cheng said, casting her eyes at Concubine Liang inadvertently.

"It can be settled." The empress opened the Buddhist scriptures and took a look, then called the palace servants around her, "I really like this gift of Wen Qing, you go to my place to get the red wine that is in the cabinet. Come to the casket, and give Wen Qing the first set of ruby ​​heads in there."

Princess Cheng knew the empress' temperament, and happily called her daughter Xie En.

Zhou Chengyan was only from the fourth grade, so Yijia was at the bottom of the list. Apart from Zhou Yihan, there was no one he was familiar with.Like the other girls, she kept her head half down all the time, and only listened carefully to what the empress and ladies were saying above, but she didn't dare to look up.

Not everyone met the Empress in person and picked her up in person.

After the daughter of the royal family, I only saw He Lian, the daughter of He Yushi, because she took the leader at the lantern show; in addition, there was Mu Chaoyun, because of General Mu's face; and Miss Kang San , although it is a concubine, but because it is Mrs. Kang's oldest granddaughter, the empress also met; and Liang Mingyue and Lu Pei.

For the rest of the people, the gifts they gave were handed over to the servants for collection.

Seeing the empress waving her hand to signal everyone to retreat, Le Chengmin rushed over and hugged her arm, and said in a low voice, "Aunt Empress, didn't you say you wanted to see Sister Jia?"

Only then did the empress remember that when she first made the decree, she wanted to meet the daughter of the Guozijianji restaurant.But now that they knew what Liang Mingzhi and Qi Wenqing were thinking, it didn't matter if they saw or not.Just as she was about to refuse, Le Chengmin shook her arm and looked at her beggingly.

It doesn't matter, since this girl has Cheng Min's own eyes, it's okay to see her.

"Which one is the daughter of Mr. Zhou, the Imperial College Jijiu?" the empress asked.

As soon as she finished speaking, Zhou Yihan who was beside her immediately looked at Yijia.Yijia was also taken aback, she didn't dare to think too much, she hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down and said, "Minister Zhou Yijia will see the empress, and the empress is blessed and safe."

The Empress said: "Excuse me, get up and take two steps closer, and ask Ben Gong to take a good look."

What the hell is going on here? Why would the empress want to see her?

Yijia was very anxious, and her movements became even more cautious.

The empress felt a little displeased when she saw it. How can such a petty girl be Wenqing?No matter how you say it, such a family background and behavior style are not worthy of Liang Mingzhi.

but……

The length seems to be pretty good.

"Don't be restrained, raise your head and ask Ben Gong to take a good look." The empress slowed down her voice deliberately.

Yijia raised her head boldly.

A pair of twinkling eyes appeared in front of the empress.

Pale pink lips, fair face, and black hair.The stature has not fully grown, but some mountains and valleys can be vaguely seen.It looks really good.

I heard from Cheng Min that this girl likes Liang Mingzhi.

Another one, like Wen Qing, is bold.

However, with such a good-looking family background, it would be a pity to be young, and Yi Wenqing's temper might not be tolerated.

"He's a good boy." The empress said, seeing Le Chengmin pushing her all the time, she took off the jade bracelet specially worn on her wrist by Le Chengmin's will, "Come on, take this jade bracelet and play with it."

Before waiting for the servant to pick him up, Le Chengmin took the jade bracelet and walked to Yijia in two steps.

"Here it is for you, it was given to you by my aunt the queen, thank you quickly!" She said with a smile.

Yijia immediately knelt down, "Minister, thank you Empress."

After the empress called out the courtesy, Yijia respectfully took the jade bracelet from Le Chengmin.

Such an episode, which the empress didn't pay much attention to at all, made other people look red-eyed.Many girls today, apart from Princess Wenqing, He Wan, Mu Chaoyun, and Miss Kang San received rewards. Although these three are envious, they can still accept it, but this suddenly came out of nowhere. The little girl who came here, how could she be rewarded by the empress?
Could it be that the empress intends to choose her as King Xiang's side concubine?

It was not until Shenzheng time that the crowd came out of the queen's palace.

Zhou Yihan asked in a low voice beside Yijia: "Why does the empress reward you with jade bracelets?"

"I don't know." Yijia said.

"I don't know? How is it possible!" Zhou Yihan snorted, "Did King Xiang see you as a side concubine? I know, when Prince Anping was injured and lived in your house last time, King Xiang went to your house Several times, didn't you guys get on well at that time?"

Yijia didn't even know what she was looking for with this jealous look.

"This is in the palace, you don't want to live, so don't blame your family with your mouth like this!" She shouted in a low voice: "Arranging the royal children randomly in private, you are getting impatient, aren't you?"

Zhou Yihan was taken aback by her, and quickly covered her mouth.

I looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to them, so I was relieved.He curled his lips and snorted, and chased after him.

When the two walked to the gate of the palace, they saw Miss Kang San and a girl with a maid standing at the gate, as if they were waiting for them.

"Miss Zhou." Miss Kang San called out from a distance.

Yijia knew she couldn't hide, so she walked over.

"Miss Kang San." She greeted.

Miss Kang San smiled slightly, pulled the girl next to her and said, "Miss Zhou, this is my cousin, He Wan."

Yijia saluted slightly, "Miss He." Then she explained Zhou Yihan next to her.In any case, they are cousins, and they all represent the Zhou family when they come out.If she made Zhou Yihan look bad, she was actually making herself look bad.

There was no one in the capital who didn't know about He Wan. Even if she didn't go to the West Street Lantern Festival during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhou Yihan knew about Miss He.

"So you are the Miss He in the legend. You are really amazing. How did you guess the answer to that riddle?" She said flatteringly.

He Wan gave her a disdainful look, and ignored her words.

A trace of embarrassment flashed across Zhou Yihan's face, but she also knew that she would not be allowed to be presumptuous in front of He Wan, so she had to endure it.

"So you are the second young lady of the Zhou family, and that's all. I thought you were such a fairy." He Wan looked at Yijia from head to toe unkindly, and said.

"Cousin..." Miss Kang San hurriedly pulled her, and said a little unhappy: "Didn't you promise me that I just came to see her and wouldn't talk nonsense?" After finishing speaking, she hurriedly apologized to Yijia, "Zhou Miss Jia, don't get me wrong, my cousin has no other intentions, she just..."

"Am I talking nonsense? I'm just telling the truth." He Wan interrupted her, and continued: "Only your big brother who is a concubine can fall in love with such a person, that's right, the same is not the case." The countertop!"

"Cousin, what are you talking about!" Miss Kang San said sullenly.

Miss Kang San was very annoyed, not only did He Wan lie to her to introduce Yijia to meet, but she also didn't like what she said, her eldest brother is a concubine, and she is also a concubine, what happened to their concubines?If they didn't steal from the second sister, could it be that they want to be concubines?If it weren't for the fact that the mother couldn't give birth to a son and gave the father one concubine after another, they wouldn't be children of concubines at all.

She didn't know how the eldest brother's aunt followed her father, but her aunt was drugged by her mother and sent to her father's bed.Her aunt also said that if she hadn't been drugged, she would have been married.Even if she goes out to be the daughter of an ordinary family, it is better than being the concubine daughter of the Kang family!
She had already lived enough to be terrified, but in the end, this cousin, not only offended her elder brother, but also caused her to offend his elder brother too!

He Wan glared at Miss Kang San unhappily, "Why are you calling me!"

(End of this chapter)